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Master Main Idea with these task cards! Build student confidence with this engaging and differentiated resource!WHAT’S INCLUDED: ✍️ PRINT:48 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:4 Google Slides versions Easel Activity Easel Assessment - Self-CheckingDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Two Sets: Multiple Choice or Short AnswerMultiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, or 5t

Nonfiction Reading Interactive Notebooks for Nonfiction Text - Common Core Aligned Grades 4-8This reading interactive notebook is the nonfiction (informational text) companion for my TpT top seller Interactive Reading Literature Notebooks.This is the *original* Interactive Reading Notebooks for Informational Text! Over 32,000 copies sold!--------------------------------------------------------------After learning about interactive notebooks two summers ago, I resolved to use this technique for e

Summarizing nonfiction texts can be so hard for students! Give them lots of practice with these 24 informational task cards! Use in a print or digital format!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:24 Task Cards (prints 4 to a page)Black-lineColorRecording SheetsAnswer KeysDIGITAL:Google SlidesEasel ActivityDIFFERENTIATION OPTIONS:Digital or PrintChallenge Cards to extend the lessonAudio Support Multiple versions of the recording sheet includedGreat for 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade! CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW TO SEE

Teaching main idea and supporting details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea and key details. As an added bonus, most of the activities are no prep! This main idea unit starts easy (with activities that make a great introduction for beginners) and gets increasingly more difficult to help students develop a true understanding of the diffe

Informational Text Reading Skills and Close Reading Task Cards for Comprehension Skill ReviewEngage your readers with high-interest reading comprehension passages and corresponding questions! This resource includes 32 half-page informational text task cards with 4 comprehension questions and tasks on EACH card for a total of 128 informational text questions! Engage your students in meaningful close reading practice and review key reading skills associated with informational and nonfiction text

These close reading comprehension passages are the perfect no-prep, standards-based, and high interest way to strengthen your students' close reading skills!This resource includes 100 passages professionally written by a published children's author with more than 100 books in print!WHAT’S INCLUDED:✍️ PRINT:60 printable passages with comprehension questions (Each with 2 levels! 120 passages total.)Teacher answer keysStudent annotation guide3 graphic organizers to use with the 5 included paired pa

How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all!PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allow

These main idea and details reading comprehension passages include holiday themes such as Cesar Chavez pg.41, Spring & Easter pg.36, Earth Day pg.37, & more!Finding the main idea and supporting details has never been easier! Using our main idea graphic organizer to color code nonfiction passages gives students multiple opportunities to practice recognizing text organization. When students can see the organization of a written paragraph, they can more easily identify the main idea. Each r

Are you having a hard time teaching your students how to find the main idea and supporting details of a passage? Many students struggle with this skill. They tend to get confused and caught up in all the little details. These reading passages with graphic organizers are perfect for students to use as they practice finding the main idea and supporting details. After years of trial and error, I have found that this solution works time and time again.These PRINT & DIGITAL main idea practice act

Reading comprehension skills and strategies can be tricky to teach in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms. There are a lot of comprehension related standards that teachers need to teach throughout the year. These reading comprehension anchor charts will help you take your reading lessons to the next level and will help you teach comprehension in a clear and concise way. This set of anchor charts includes 25 ready-to-print anchor charts that will help you effectively teach your students the detail

This main idea bundle has everything you need to keep your upper elementary and middle school students engaged as they read passages and identify the main idea and supporting details in the text. Several activities include test prep elements because main idea questions tend to appear frequently on standardized tests. Students love the activities while teachers love the convenience of these no-prep resources that can be used year after year! These main idea activities can be used for test prep, r

Finding the main idea can be so challenging for students! This Main Idea, Supporting Details, and Summary Unit can make it so much easier! The print and digital unit has everything you need from reading comprehension passages, to games, task cards, and graphic organizers! This unit has such a variety of materials with high-interest passages and fun activities that will help your students master the concept of finding the main idea using informational text.It includes: Print and Digital Versions3

Want to keep your students engaged and learning during December? Here's what one teacher said about my Holidays Around the World for Older Kids: "Very engaging for my 3rd-5th graders, and perfect for the weeks leading up to Christmas break. There are so many resources here that I didn't even get to use all of them in class, but it was great because I could pick and choose what would be most meaningful for my students. I loved the research pages for students to do their own research on a country,

Keep your kids engaged as they learn how details support the main idea with this main idea craftivity. Your students will match three detail sentences to each main idea sentence. The finished products can be used to make a creative bulletin board or school hallway display!All of the MAIN IDEA CONES are related to ice cream topics. These are the main ideas:Three ice cream flavors are clearly America's favorites.The amount of milkfat determines how ice cream is labeled.Ice cream can cause a sensat

Need a simple-to-use tool to help your students remember the reading comprehension skills and strategies they need to succeed? These 24 reading bookmarks will help students practice reading strategies and skills with questions and sentence frames. Use the reading bookmarks as strategy references or to keep track of reading skills across multiple books or reading comprehension passages.The bookmarks are divided into two categories:★ 17 Reading Skills bookmarks★ 7 Reading Strategies bookmarksEach

Your students will learn about the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States with this bundle of five units.This bundle includes both printable and digital options. If you would like a printable, paper-based unit, check out my Five Regions Unit Bundle, or you can get the digital options only.Each region includes a 6-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about the region. While reading the complex text, your stu

Our Animal Research Project Report can be used with ANY animal including GROUNDHOGS and ARCTIC ANIMALS IN WINTER. The graphic organizers, scaffolded guided notes and scoring rubric make it easy for you to teach research writing based on any winter animal. The differentiated pages make it perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade or 5th grade students.Best of all...since it was designed to be used to learn about any animal, you can use it over and over throughout the year!The Animal Research Pr

Includes Nonfiction Text Structure Passages! Close Reading Informational Text Passages for Interactive NotebooksThis passage pack is full of text-marking lessons for active nonfiction reading. They focus on teaching and practicing identifying nonfiction text structure as well as identifying main ideas, transitions, and supporting details in paragraph and multi-paragraph passages. This product is the perfect extension to my Interactive Reading Notebooks: Informational Text, but can easily be impl

Teaching 4th grade ELA has so many components - and that’s before you even think about aligning to English Language Arts standards and state test prep! Supplement your main ELA curriculum with my 4th Grade Mini Lessons With Standards Based Assessments. Whether you use this resource every single week to supplement instruction, as a part of your literacy rotations, or as a robust review for test prep season, your 5th graders will show what they know as you thoroughly assess each standard. No more

Do you teach 4th or 5th grade reading? This reading resource will be a lifesaver! It includes everything you need to supplement your reading instruction for the included reading skills (see below for the skills included).This HUGE reading resource is a bundle of 18 of my reading resources and reading activities for 4th and 5th grade reading and literacy skills. NOTE: All of the resources in this bundle now include Google Slides or Google Forms (most are designed for use with Google Slides).This

This reading workshop bundle is designed to provide an entire year of detailed reading instruction for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades! In addition to the PDF version of this file, there is a digital copy of all student files. ***************************************************************************What's Included?Each of the six units includes 30 day-by-day lessons. Each lesson contains directions for a mini lesson, independent reading time, and closing. There is also an additional handout or guided

Increase reading comprehension skills in just 10 minutes per day!! This 4th Grade Daily Reading Comprehension resource is perfect for Reading HOMEWORK, Reading MORNING WORK, or a DAILY READING REVIEW! All texts are professionally written & on-level. Text-dependent questions build in complexity each week as more skills are introduced. All questions are EDITABLE and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.⭐⭐UPGRADE for just $10 and get both PRINT & DIGITAL versions } CLICK HER

Help students dig deeper into informational reading with these holiday themed close reading passages and comprehension questions. In this product, there are ten nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations' holiday celebrations. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, I've written each passage on three different reading levels to make differentiation a little easier for you. There are also three sets of questions for each set of passages. The first se

Teaching students to identify the main idea and supporting details can be incredibly challenging! It doesn't have to be tedious and boring, too! If you are looking for a step-by-step PowerPoint that can be used to introduce main idea and supporting details to your students in a way that will grab their attention, you've come to the right place! I use ice cream cone graphics so that students will build a meaningful connection that will help them remember and understand how details support the mai